Old Mutual Global Equity Abs Return EUR A Acc Hdgd

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Amadeo Alentorn joined Old Mutual in 2005. He is a fund manager in the global equities team, and is also responsible for directing the quantitative research programme. He has extensive experience in investment, quantitative research and software development. Prior to joining Old Mutual, he developed simulation models for systemic and liquidity risk at the Bank of England (2004-2005), and worked as a software developer for CAD systems (2001-2004) and for robotic applications (1998-1999). Amadeo holds a BEng in Robotics (2000) from the University of Plymouth, an MSc in Computer Science (2001) and a PhD in Computational Finance (2006) from the University of Essex. During his doctoral research he developed a new option pricing model based on extreme value theory. He is a CFA charterholder.

Ian Heslop was born in South Shields in the United Kingdom in the early seventies. He holds a BA in chemistry from Oxford University and a PhD in medicinal chemistry from Edinburgh University. He started his career in the financial industry in 1997 when he joined Barclays Global Investors. After three years he then joined Old Mutual Asset Management is currently head of quantitative strategies. Ian is a member of ASIP and outside of fund management he likes to unwind by playing squash and football.

Mike Servent joined OMGI in November 2004 from Barra International where he was a senior consultant specialising in the implementation of multi asset-class risk systems. Prior to this he spent five years with COR Risk Solutions, which developed optimisation, backtesting and modelling software. At COR he worked as commercial development manager as well as undertaking research projects with various clients. Mike has an MA in physics from Oxford University.

Objective

The objective of the Fund is capital appreciation while closely controlling risk. In addition, the Fund intends to deliver absolute returns that have a low correlation with equity and bond markets. The Fund aims to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in a portfolio of equity securities of companies located worldwide and listed or traded on Recognised Exchanges and by pursuing the strategy detailed below. It is not proposed to concentrate investments in any one geographical region or sector. The Fund aims to deliver an absolute return over rolling 12 month periods, in other words, at any one time the portfolio of the Fund will typically be constructed with reference to an investment horizon of no greater than 12 months.

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